We’re getting together for lunch tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. at MarketPlace Cafe in downtown Minneapolis.
Date: Friday, March 19
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: MarketPlace Cafe, On the corner of 11th Street and Nicollet Mall. Address: 1070 Nicollet Mall
I wrote to everyone, I think… If I left you out, I sincerely apolo-muh-gize.
See you tomorrow?
lno, you need to not only take a half-day, but cut out early! I command it!!!
No public transit, so I can’t come. BWAH.
However, Miss gazelle, you should bring your precious pooch to our neighbourhood Laundromutt this weekend! Email me or something! 
Being the squeaky wheel, I guess I’d better come.
Ellenfair–I’ll be coming in from Minnetonka. If you’re in between, I can give you a lift. Email me if you’d like.
Coolness. I can make this one. Ditto on the lift, elenfair. 
Thanks to you both… I also realised that I have a student from 10-11:30 tomorrow morning. Bwaaaaah!
sob
::: shameless pitch ::: Got a dog? Bring it to our neighbourhood grooming extravaganza this weekend, darnit!
chique and easy, glad to hear you can make it.
elenbabe, you will be missed. Sadly, I cain’t make the doggywash. So freakin’ busy this weekend! Sorry, sweetie.
“Chique and Easy” <---------- Band name! Or a new pickup line.
Gazelle, take a longer lunch. It’s Friday, ferpete’ssake. You never come to lunch anymore now that you skipped outta downtown.
lno’s going to be there? Damn. I was hoping I’d be surrounded by women.
Oh, crap…I have to be in the shower like 10 minutes ago if I’m going to make it in time…someone save me a chair, eh?
I won’t be there until noon, so you can have your bevy of beauties without competition, and then I can come in, flaunt my plumage, and peck at your head until you’re driven away.
And you can crap on my car.
Ain’t the animal world great?
Make/Model/Color/Parking location?
Coincidentally, it’s the same make, model and color as yours, and I parked next to you today. On the left. Or on the right, crap, I don’t remember.
Nursie and lno will be there?!?
Okay, you twisted my arm. I’ll stick around a little longer so’s I can say, “Hey” and jet.
I’m gonna get fired!
/me will be crashing the gala prior to noon
[really pathetic whining]I spent the better part of an hour wandering downtown Minneapolis, and could not find the place. I didn’t think to check this thread, I just went off the e-mail, which didn’t have the address. No problem, I looked it up on the internet: 700 Nicollet Mall. When I arrived, this turned out to be Marshall Field’s Marketplace Cafe, in the basement of Marshall Field’s. Clearly the wrong place. So I checked the directory kiosk on the mall. Only one restaurant with “marketplace” in the name, Nico’s Deli and Marketplace. Trekked three blocks down, no, it’s the wrong place. Tried calling information on my cell phone. After talking, three times!, to the very nice man who answers the phone for Marketplace Innovations, information informed me that there are no restaurants in Minneapolis starting with “Marketplace.” By this time my parking meter was about to expire, I was flustered, angry and upset, and I just gave up and went home.
[tangential rant]Do you know it is impossible to get onto interstate 94 headed east from downtown Minneapolis? I finally gave up and took Hennepin to 280. I hate downtown Minneapolis!!![/tangential rant][/really pathetic whining]
I hope everyone had a wonderful time at the non-existant restaurant. I’m sorry I missed seeing Chique again. Gazelle, I forwarded you an e-mail to add to your “Notification List.” I’ll try again next time.
Punky, you doorknob; you’ve been there before!
Silly girl.
Well, we missed you.
rubes and Nursie should be along any minute to elucidate upon the subject of “blumpkins.”
And lno, where the Hell were you?
Y’know, punky (and I’m sorry I missed you, too!), I had the same issue the first time I went. I even got lost in the skyway trying to get back to my car. If someone would’ve mentioned that it’s kittycorner from Orchestra Hall/Peavey Plaza it would’ve been a LOT easier.
Oh, and just a word of advice…do not ask for a definition of “blumpkins”, m’kay? Just…just trust me on this one.
I’m still a Minnesota Doper, you know… 
Hey chique, do you still live in the same place? Last time I went to St. Cloud I was <this> close to stopping by but then decided not to. I don’t remember why… Oh well. It’s not like you guys care if you ever see me again!!!
Yeah, that is weird. I either get on from Franklin or go Washington-Cedar. I still have trouble remembering where the 35W entrances from downtown are–and I live downtown!
It was nice to attend my first DopeEvent since the great Porkapalooza of '02 (was there one last year). rubes–I promise I will check out your (undamaged, not-used-as-a-coaster) CD this weekend. Talk about a guilt-trip.
Sorry I missed lno (did he ever show up) and The Punkyova.
You know, I left that out of my original post because I didn’t want to look totally lame. Thanks for blowing my cover.
I actually thought I was just ignorant, but a friend of mine and I got out a map and looked this afternoon, and there really isn’t any way. What’s up with that? Is the thinking that no one would ever need to go east from Minneapolis? I’ve always been told that Minneapolis is pretty snooty about St. Paul, but this is the first actual proof of that that I’ve seen. Unless it’s just incredibly poor planning.